First Lesson (all levels)

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Instructions

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To make the first lesson go as smoothly as possible, please feel free to use this script.
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These questions will help your teacher get to know a little more about you, your Chinese

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The questions are designed so that you can give as much or as little detail as you want

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depending on your Chinese level and how comfortable you feel.
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You also feel free to ask the teacher some questions of your own.

This script and these questions are completely optional and are merely meant to be
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Script

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Hello? Can you hear me?
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Yes. Can you hear me?

Teacher: Yes. Hello and welcome to ChineseTeachers.com. Would you like to use
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I think the standard questions are OK.

Teacher: OK. If you can, try to answer the questions in Chinese as much as
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traditional characters (Trad.)
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This script and these questions are completely optional and are merely suggestions for the

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beginning of the first lesson

English Pinyin Hanzi Ž

1. Which nationality are you? nǐ shì nǎ guó

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rén?


2. Where do you live? nǐ zhù zài nǎli
 




 
3. How long have you studied nǐ xué zhōngwén 

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Chinese? duōjiǔ le

  

4. Do you have Chinese friends? nǐ yǒu Zhōngguó 
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péngyou ma

 
5. Why are you studying Chinese? nǐ wèishénme
  


xué zhōngwén

  

6. Do you have a topic you want to nǐ jīntiān xiǎng  
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study today? xué shénme ne
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(Note: it is ok if you do not have a

topic in mind, our teachers always 
have ideas)